Art Quotes
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
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I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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Time is not important, but art is.
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
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I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.
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I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
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Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
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As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.
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All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side.
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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
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The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.
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Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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My parting words are I’m excited for what’s next. It’s easy for me to sit over a 20 year career and say what I’ve done right or what I’ve done wrong but, I ultimately I have a perspective that’s very clear and educated on an art form.
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A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
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In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.
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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
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Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art-Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores.
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I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
